A Foundation for Strategic Agenda Voting

• Authors: Jose Apesteguia.
• BSE Working Paper: 110092 | September 15
• Keywords: strategic voting , institutions , Committees , agendas , axioms
• JEL codes: C72, D02, D71, D72
• strategic voting
• institutions
• Committees
• agendas
• axioms

We offer complete characterizations of the equilibrium outcomes of two prominent agenda voting institutions that are widely used in the democratic world: the amendment, also known as the Anglo-American procedure, and the successive, or equivalently the Euro-Latin procedure. Our axiomatic approach provides a proper understanding of these voting institutions, and allows comparisons between them, and with other voting procedures.